As we wrap up 2020, I wanted to take a moment to look at where the industry is headed and what we’ve learned this year. Telecom & Cloud ‘Plumbing’ based…
By: Al Morton, OPNFV TSC Chair The parade of once-in-a-lifetime events during 2020 made it a year that many would prefer to forget, world-wide! OPNFV participants and their LFN staff…
By Ranny Haiby, Samsung The ONAP community is excited to announce reaching a significant milestone – the general availability of Guilin, the 7th ONAP release. Named after the Chinese city…
By: Tomas Fredberg, Cloud Infrastructure Reference Model developer (LFN/CNTT) Note : Part 1 of this two-part blog series is available here. Reference Model Basic Concepts The First concept is the…
By: Tomas Fredberg, Cloud Infrastructure Reference Model developer (LFN/CNTT) Why do we need a Reference Model? Today, for Telco Operators, Cloud Infrastructure often means a few racks of servers on…
By: Walter Kozlowski, Telstra, Cloud Infrastructure Reference Model Lead (LFN/CNTT) Fact: Virtualization/containerization of network functions have moved from science experiments to mainstream technology in the telco industry. Result: That means…
By Jim Baker, technical program manager, LF Networking We find our 2020 year filled with chaos! However, a shining beacon of hope for us at LFN comes from our newest…
(Portions of this post originally appeared on the O-RAN Alliance website and has been reprinted with permission.) The O-RAN Software Community (OSC), is a collaboration between the O-RAN Alliance and…
Distributed But Always Connected. The Open Networking & Edge Summit 2020 Virtual Experience gathered 1,322 live attendees from 523 organizations in 71 countries around the globe. 54% hailed from the…
By Beth Cohen, CNTT Technical Editor, SDN Product Manager at Verizon You know what they say -- the third time is the charm -- and with that said, CNTT (Cloud…